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UNITED STATES PATENT EEicE.

llEZEKIAH. M. BOLIN, OF DAYTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO J. G. GAGEL, OF SAME PLACE.

BOILER COMPOUND OR SOLVENT DISTRIBUTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 552,863, dated January '7, 1896.

- Application filed June 25, 1895. iterial No. 553,979. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, HEZEKIAH M. BoLIN, of Dayton, county of Montgom cry, State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement 5 in Boiler Compound or Solvent Distributors; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the IO same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in distributors for boiler compounds or scale solvents.

The object of the invention is to provide means for feeding or distributing liquid com pounds or scale solvents to the boilers of 2:) pumps or engines in an even and systematic manner and to prevent a waste of said material.

To these ends the invention consists of mechanism that will be fully described in the fol lowing specification, and pointed out in the claim.

Referring to the annexed drawings, which form a part of this specification, and upon which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved compound-distributer. Fig. 2 is an enlarged section through the compound-reservoir. Fig. 3 is a similar section of the feed-valve devices.

A designates a water reservoir or heater, and B is a suction or feed pipe running therefrom to the boiler of a pump or engine. (Not shown.) C is a stand-pipe intersectin said pipe B and connected thereto by a union 13. The pipe is controlled bya valve 0 and has upon its upper end an open-work valve-frame c, in the center of which is placed a glass tube d,- throngh which the compound may be seen as it drops. The tube cl is maintained in position by collars c and c that are screwed into the frame c.

e designates a valve the stem of which projects into the glass tube and regulates the feed thereto.

D is a reservoir that is adapted to contain the liquid compound, and which is provided with an agitator consisting of a vertical crankrod f journaled in the top and bottom of said reservoir and provided with a series of blades f which are fixed thereto.

9 designates a plug that closes an opening in the top of the reservoir through which the liquid compound is fed.

9' is a glass tube or gage communicating with the upper and lower portions of the reservoir and adapted to register the quantity of compound in said reservoir from time to time.

From the reservoir there are two feed-pipes s and s of varying sizes. The former pipe discharges into the valve 6 and is adapted to feed liquid of a lighter specific gravity than that which may be fed through the pipe 3'. This latter pipe is controlled by a valve 8 and connects with the stand-pipe O at a point below the valve 6, and its use and purpose are to feed a heavier compound and to drain the reservoir.

From the foregoing description it will be noted the distributer has a capacity for feeding liquid compounds of various specific gravities which may be thoroughly mined from time to time by turning the agitator.

It will be noted from the accompanying drawings that the reservoir D is normally closed at the top, and, further, that there is no connection between the heater A and said reservoir. These are essential features of construction, owing to the feed of the solvent being distributed by suction through the valve C, said suction being created in the feed-pipe B. In order to obtain this suction, however, it is necessary to locate the stand -pipe O closely adjacent to the pump or engine, and it is preferable to connect said stand-pipe directly to the pump or engine when practical in order to obtain the requisite suction, which should always be greater in the pipe C than at any point between the point where said pipe O enters the feed-pipe and the heater A.

I am aware that it is not new to supply scale solvents to the feed-water of boilers by gravity and to replace the solvent as it is used from the reservoir with water from a heater, but such is not according to my invention.

Having described my invention, I claim In a distributor for liquid compounds or boiler scale solvents, the combination with a Water heater, and a feed Water pipe, of a stand low the Valve e, whereby means are propipe -C- adapted to be located in close proX- 'ided for feeding solvents of Varying specific imity to a pump or engine, a solvent reservoir, gravities, as herein shown and described.

a sight tube, and a regulating VELhG e In testimony whereof I have hereunto sci 5 mounted on the upper end of said stand pipe, my hand this 10th day of June, 1895.

a solvent feed pipe connected to the reservoir and communicating with the stand pi pc C IIEZEKIAH M. BOLIN. through the Valve e, and an auxiliary 'itnesses: solventfeed pipe connected to said reservoir R. J. MCOARTY,

10 and communicating with said pipe O be- L. L. ALLEN. 

